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The first attempts to disintegrate concretions extracorporeally using piezoelectric techniques date from the late fourties (Berlinicke and Schennetten 1951; Coats 1956; Lamport et al. 1950; Mulvaney 1953). These authors achieved a slight disruption of concretions by applying sound waves at intensities of about 5 W/cm2 over a period of up to 30 min.
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Riedlinger, R., Kopper, B., Wurster, H. (1987). Extracorporeal Piezoelectric Lithotripsy (EPL) — Generation and Application of Short High-Power Sound Pulses. In: Jacobi, G.H., Rübben, H., Harzmann, R. (eds) Investigative Urology 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72735-1_31
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